130 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
flowers of both on our table, gathered from tufts that have for 
several years thriven on a border facing east, where the keen winds 
of March and April would surely destroy them if they were not 
thoroughly hardy, but they have never injured the stellate 
anemones. Less showy, but not less beautiful, is the double 
variety of the pure white Anemone nemorosa, which makes a charm- 
ing pot plant, and is quite a gem for the rockery. The single wild 
flower grows on the banks in our wild garden, and we sometimes 
wonder why we should think more highly of the double variety in 
the border; still, a double flower is a double flower, and if in this 
case—as in very many others—we lose the simple elegance of the 
wild form, we obtain in place of it a plant that offers us now a great 
cluster of most beautiful white rosettes. The Apennine Wind- 
flower, Anemone apennina, with its sky-blue flowers, is another 
valuable border plant, but can scarcely be kept where slugs and 
snails abound, owing to their ill-mannered taste for eating it. 
When these marauders leave it alone it brings out a glorious sheet 
of blue flowers in the spring, and Jooks as if a bit of the blue sky 
had come down to find a cushion of green leaves to rest upon. 
Later in flower than the foregoing, we have Anemone alba, the 
flowers of which have been justly likened to those of Clematis Mon- 
tana, and Anemone alpina, with white or yellowish flowers. These 
are fine border plants, and they exhaust our list of select species, 
save that we have a great gun in store with which to wind up. 
This is the well-known Anemone Japonica, with rosy purple flowers, 
which appear in September, and make a very stately figure in the 
border. Better however than the normal purple form of the plant 
is that variety of it called Honorine Jobert, with flowers of the purest 
white, produced in great profusion, lasting from early in September 
until November frosts cut them down. The Japan anemone is a 
glorious border flower when left alone for several years ; all it wants 
is a bit of common loamy soil, and a little shelter from winds, 
because it flowers at a time when storms prevail. 
For those who want collections of anemones, there are plenty to 
be found. But our object is not, and never has been, to crowd the 
gardens of amateurs with plants of second or third-rate merit, for 
writers who trot out unattractive plants do harm, though they may 
intend to do good, and so it is part of our plan to name a select 
few, rather than run to the opposite extreme of naming too many. 
In one respect all the anemones agree. They like a good, deep, 
moist soil. A dry, sandy soil does not suit them. But they also 
require perfect drainage and some amount of shelter, hence it is not 
advisable to plant them in exposed situations. 
A TupvLar-LEAVED STRAWBERRY.—M. Dutailly has recently described befor 
the Linnean Society of Paris a case where the leaflets of a strawberry were tubular, 
forming small pitchers like those of a Sarracenia. There was no fusion of the 
margins in this case, but simply an exaggerated condition of a peliate leaf. ‘lhe 
author speculates on the probability of the production of a race of these pitcher- 
hearing Strawberries. 
